ComicalMayhem

I followed the directions on SFML's website for installation and usage via CMake. Cloned the git repo and ran cmake -B build cmake --build build. Everything went fine, but when I try to compile the test program with g++, it fails with a few different errors.

Here's the errors:

src/main.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
src/main.cpp:11:45: error: qualified-id in declaration before ‘event’
   11 |                 while ( const std::optional event = window.pollEvent() )
      |                                             ^~~~~
src/main.cpp:13:30: error: ‘event’ was not declared in this scope
   13 |                         if ( event->is<sf::Event::Closed>() )
      |                              ^~~~~
src/main.cpp:13:59: error: expected primary-expression before ‘)’ token
   13 |                         if ( event->is<sf::Event::Closed>() )
      |                                                           ^

And the main file:

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

int main()
{
	sf::RenderWindow window( sf::VideoMode( { 200, 200 } ), "SFML works!" );
	sf::CircleShape shape( 100.f );
	shape.setFillColor( sf::Color::Green );

	while ( window.isOpen() )
	{
		while ( const std::optional event = window.pollEvent() )
		{
			if ( event->is<sf::Event::Closed>() )
				window.close();
		}

		window.clear();
		window.draw( shape );
		window.display();
	}
}

It should work to my knowledge, I think. I mean, this is straight from SFML's github and tutorial page on their website, so it should be functional as-is once the cmake stuff is handled, right?

EDIT: Figured it out. Had to build the executable from the build folder via make.

Ubuntu package libdev-sfml is only up to 2.6. How can I get sfml 3.0 for C++ on my machines? Am I just gonna have to build it from source?

Would like to get some things off my chest and yell into a void if possible.

Tons of spam bots coming from this instance. It's kind of ridiculous, something happen?

For various reasons I will not elaborate on, I have been considering what a linked list fetch modus looks like for a sylladex. For those who do not involve themselves in the sacred arts of data structures, a linked list is a type of data structure using nodes and pointers, where each node contains some data, and a pointer pointing to the next node in the list. Generally, there are separate pointers pointing to the first and last node in the list; these aren't nodes themselves, just vague ambigious non-entities that do nothing but reference the first and last nodes (head and tail respectively). There are also doubly linked lists in which each node points to the previous and the next node, and circular linked lists, wherein the last node points back to the first node. An advantage to this type of data structure is that nodes can be placed anywhere in the linked list rather easily. For example, in a singly linked list, node 3 just needs to point to the new node, and the new node to node 4, and suddenly the new node is part of the linked list.

My initial guess is that for a linked list modus, each card is a node. When an item is first picked up, this becomes the head (first node) card, and then subsequent items retrieved follow after the head card. Cards at the head and tail (last node) can be accessed freely, while cards in the middle need to be accessed by using each card before it (forward traversal through the linked list) or after it (backwards traversal through the linked list) in subsequent order. However, new items do not necessarily need to be added at the end or beginning of the list; if there are unused cards, the item can be placed anywhere in the linked list at will without much hassle. if there are no nodes (cards) available and a new item is picked up, the card at the end of the list is ejected.

My only problem with this is that it's essentially just the queuestack type that john makes in act 2 i believe, except with the added mechanic of new items being placed in the middle of the queuestack instead of either the top or bottom. Also, to be really accurate to linked lists, the data (item) in each node (card) doesn't need to be accessed for traversal, just the pointer to the next node. If that's the case for the modus, then it's no different from an array modus, where any item at any position can be retrieved at will. What do you all think?

No idea where else to ask this.

I'm trying to get PyGame working on my machine. Installed using sudo apt install python3-pygame and it installs fine, but when I try to run a file that imports pygame, I get a module error telling me there's no module named pygame that exists. Nothing I've looked into online seems to help. I thought, maybe since the file is being run out of my Documents folder and pygame is installed in my root folder, that I'd import pygame directly from the root. I used sys.path.insert(1, '/lib/python3/dist-packages') to insert the folder and then imported pygame, which changed the error to from pygame.base import * # pylint: disable=wildcard-import; lgtm[py/polluting-import]. I have no idea what's going on or how to fix this. Most threads online I see are for Windows, so I'm not sure how much the advice applies to Linux, and the ones that do specify for Linux have conflicting advice or don't make sense to me. I'm just trying to get the damn thing to work.

Also, as I was typing my system specs, a random website called https://termbin.com/jdpt opened with all my system specs on it. I don't know what this is or how it opened or why, and I'm lowkey scared but it's nifty ig. Anyone know how that opened?

Edit: Oh, also, I have an IDE and I know I can get it to run in the IDE because I had to for a project last semester, but I'm trying to avoid it and work on everything in text editor and from the terminal as a challenge to myself. Also pygame runs like shit through my IDE (Pycharm)

EDIT: Got one solution from a classmate in discord. I installed a virtual environment following this link (provided by lokalhorst below). After, I had to run source venv/bin/activate in the home folder of the project, where venv is the name of the virtual environment I created. This turned my terminal into a... something, I think a virtual environment. Anyways there's now a (venv) at the very start of the terminal entries now, and pygame works fine.

Ideally, I would still like to be able to run it without actually using a virtual environment. Again according to lokalhorst (huge thanks to you btw), running a virtual environment is best practice instead of modifying the OS python install, but I'm not sure if I want to have to run a venv every time I make a project. I'll figure that out later though, maybe at some point make an executable that doesn't require a venv or something. idk, still figuring things out.

First, I am unable to host. My apartment wifi forbids it and I'm too poor to afford my own wifi.

Is there a good alternative to google docs? Preferably on the cloud, if not then that's fine. I know LibreOffice writer exists but to my knowledge it lacks Doc's document tab thing, which I make extensive use of, and cloud services. I'm trying to get off Google as much as I can, but the cloud hosted aspect of Docs is very useful, both for sharing links to documents quickly and for opening up a document on any of my 3 devices without having to sync or update the documents manually.

I'm so fucking tired of clicking on a song and finding out it's the fucking censored version halfway through. It genuinely pisses me off, even if the censors are well done, it still fucks up the flow of the music. Songs should never be censored regardless of the amount of swears and innuendos; they're a form of expression by artists and creators. Oh, what about the kids? Yeah fuck right off. Parent your children better. They're eventually going to learn what curses are anyways.

HYJR for hydrangea and HYJK for hijack.

Context: Two of my friends have OCs born from a different franchise. They once paid me to write a fanfic of their characters and after that those OCs more or less became muses in a way. All 3 of us are RWBY fans to some degree and a conversation came around to a RWBY fan fic of the OCs. All this just to say the character names absolutely do not follow RWBY naming conventions lol. Including my own character, the possible initials are (h,g), (y,b), and (j,m), since last name initials can be used as well. After a lot of thought I came to these two names. Well, I came up with a lot more but these two are the final contenders.

HYJR would reference hydrangeas and match the colors of the team leader, but it's a bit of a stretch to get hydrangea from HYJR.

HYJK sounds very much like hijack and so the connection is obvious, plus it sounds cool, but the word doesn't really call to mind any colors. Then again, 3 of 4 team members don't have colors for names, and the fourth one will have whatever name fits the team name.

Noticed a thing happening lately with my YouTube app (patched by Morphe) where after a video plays for a bit, it'll stop on a frame while the audio continues, then resume playing, leaving audio and video desynced. Not sure what's causing it, and no idea where else to ask this since there's no Morphe community and Morphe isn't revanced.

Edit: Pausing and then unpausing the video fixes it temporarily by rushing the video forward, until it happens again shortly after. Length of the pause does not matter. Its technically a workaround but leaves me pausing every like 30 seconds or less.

Restarting the app doesn't work and re-patching the app didn't work. Haven't tested uninstalling and reinstalling from scratch.

Edit 2: Restarting my device seems to have fixed it, can't be 100% the issue won't crop up again since I don't actually know what the issue even was.